Cosmic Matters

By Andrew Cooper If you have been through Waimea lately, you've probably noticed a great deal of work taking place on the roofs of the W. M. Keck Observatory headquarters buildings, with installers...
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By Andrew Cooper
Professional and amateur astronomers alike are getting ready
for comet C/2012 S1 ISON, possibly the highlight of a year that has already
seen several good comets.
Comet ISON was...
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Dr. George H. Herbig, astronomer emeritus at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, has died at the age of 93. "George was a giant of...
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What did a Waimea Middle School chicken say to the Black
Hole? The black hole will never know – sound can’t travel in space.
But last week, the two got as close to communicating as ever
before...
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Jun. 24, 2013 by Joe Palca — For Sharpest Views, Scope The Sky With Quick-Change Mirrors"It used to be that if astronomers wanted to get rid of the blurring effects of the atmosphere, they had to...
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In anticipation of Keck Week's Science Meeting, we spent some time with one of the presenters, Dr. Michael Liu to find out what it was like to be an astronomer.What is it like to be “behind the...
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These two images of Uranus are composites of 117 images from 25 July 2012 (left) and 118 images from 26 July 2012 (right), all obtained with the near-infrared NIRC2 camera on the Keck II telescope....
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Geese come in gaggles, bass in shoals and a crowd of crows is called a murder. Likewise, there are names for groups of stars. They come in constellations, globular clusters, dwarf galaxies and...
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Sometimes the universe seems like something from Dr. Seuss. In recent weeks astronomers have demonstrated this by announcing the discovery of juggling galaxies as well as a square, emerald-cut, gem...
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